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Includes FAStT Storage
Manager to help centrally
manage all FAStT storage
subsystems
Designed to help facilitate
storage consolidation in
storage area network (SAN),
network attached storage
(NAS) and direct-attach
environments
Can help improve service
response time with automated
alerts from the optional FAStT
Service Alert feature
Scalable, high-performance storage for on demand computing
environments
IBM TotalStorage FAStT600 Storage
Server
Highlights
Provides four 2Gb Fibre
Channel host ports designed to
economically support multipath
failover for directly attachedUNIX and Intel processor-
based clustered servers
Designed to deliver high
performance of up to
768MB/sec throughput with
turbo option1
Supports up to 112 hard drives
and scales up to 16.4TB with
high performance 2Gb fibre
channel disks with the
FAStT600 Turbo2, or 28TB with
Serial ATA disks with FAStT600
and FAStT600 with turbo
option.
IBM TotalStorage FAStT600 Storage Server
Wide range of storage consolidation and
clustering applications
The IBM TotalStorage FAStT600
Storage Server is designed to be an
affordable, scalable storage server for
storage consolidation and clustering
applications. Its modular architec-
turewhich includes Dynamic
Capacity Addition, Dynamic Volume
Expansion and a turbo optioncan
support e-business on demand
environments by helping to enable
storage to grow as demands
increase. Autonomic features such as
online firmware upgrades and FAStT
Service Alert also help enhance the
systems usability.
The FAStT600 offers up to 8.2TB of
fibre channel physical disk storage
capacity with the EXP700. The
FAStT600, with turbo option, offers up
to 16.4TB of fibre channel physical
disk storage capacity. Both the
FAStT600 and FAStT600 with turbo
option offer up to 28TB of Serial ATA
physical disk storage capacity with
the EXP100. This server is designed
to help consolidate direct-attached
storage into a centrally managed,
shared or storage area network (SAN)
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environment using fibre channel disk
drives and the EXP700. With built-in
support for four Fibre Channel-
attached servers, the need for addi-
tional switches is reduced or
eliminated, helping to make server
clustering more cost effective.
The FAStT600 is well suited for cost-
conscious workgroup SANs as well
as small businesses and data cen-
ters. Designed for open systems envi-
ronments, this storage system helps
provide heterogeneous platform sup-
port by including failover drivers for
the Microsoft Windows 2000 oper-
ating system and optional support for
AIX, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Novell
NetWare and Linux operating sys-
tems. The FAStT600 is designed to
interoperate with IBM^
pSeries and xSeries servers as
well as with Intel processor-based
and UNIX-based servers. To help
make integration easy, IBM tests the
FAStT600 for interoperability with IBM
servers, as well as with many other
brands of servers and switches.
Part of a family of storage servers
The FAStT600 is part of the FAStT
family of storage servers, which uses
common storage management soft-
ware and expansion enclosures. It is
designed to be compatible with
existing FAStT EXP700 disk enclo-
sures and includes many of the same
high-performance software and
redundant hardware design features
as other FAStT products in the family.
The FAStT600 storage server can
also be used with the EXP100 Serial
ATA disk drive storage unit. This
helps address the requirements of
various fixed content and data refer-
ence applications which require large
amounts of storage capacity but do
not have the high utilization and
access characteristics satisfied by
EXP700 Fibre Channel disk drive
storage.
Scalability throughout the family
Because the FAStT600 Storage is
highly scalable, up to 112 fibre
channel or 112 Serial ATA disk drives
with the Turbo option, it can be
upgraded from a workgroup SAN to
an enterprise network storage
system, thereby providing flexibility to
grow with your business. In addition,
by using the FAStT Storage Manager
software, multiple FAStT600 servers
can be combined to help address
additional performance and capacity
requirementsfurther enhancing your
scalability options.
Another scalability feature of the
FAStT600 is Dynamic Capacity
Expansion (DCE), which is designed
to provide the ability to add EXP700
or EXP100 enclosures to an existing
FAStT600 without stopping opera-
tions. By adding these enclosures,the FAStT600 can help bring unused
storage online for a new host group
or an existing volume to provide addi-
tional capacity on demand.
It is designed to allow upgrades to
higher performing FAStT Storage
Servers while keeping data intact,
helping to minimize disruptions
during upgrades. The FAStT600 also
supports online controller firmware
upgrades, to help provide better per-
formance and functionality. Events
such as upgrades to support the
latest version of FAStT Storage
Manager or to add services such as
FAStT Service Alert can also often be
executed without stopping
operations.
High-performance design further
enhanced by turbo option
To meet growing needs for storage
capacity and performance, the
FAStT600 Storage Server may be
upgraded with the turbo option,
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IBM FAStT600 Storage Server at a glance
Characteristics
Model 1722-60U
RAID controller Dual active 2GB RAID controllers
Cache Base model: 512MB total, battery-backed
With turbo option: 2GB total, battery-backed
Host interface 4 Fibre Channel (FC) Switched and FC Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) standard
Drive interface Base model: 2Gbps FC-AL
With turbo option: Auto-sensing 1Gbps/2Gbps FC-AL
Supported drives 36.4GB, 73.4GB and 146.8GB 10,000 rpm
18.2GB, 36.4GB and 73.4GB 15,000 rpm
RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 10
Storage partitions Base model: 1, upgradeable to 8 or 16
With turbo option: 8, upgradeable to 64
Maximum drives supported Base model: 56 FC drives (using three EXP700 Expansion Units) or 112 Serial ATA dr ives
(using 8 EXP1000 Expansion Units)
With Turbo option: 112 FC dr ives (using 7 EXP700 Expansion Units) or 112 Serial ATA
drives (using 8 EXP100 Expansion Units)
Fans and power supplies Dual redundant, hot-swappable
Rack support 19-inch, industry-standard rack
Management software IBM FAStT Storage Manager versions 8.3, 8.4 and 8.41
SAN support Supported IBM FC switches and directors (product numbers 2109, 3534, 2031, 2032, 2042
and 2062)
Warranty 3-year parts and labor warranty, next-business-day response; upgradeable to 24 x 7
support with 4-hour response
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 132.3 mm H x 482 mm W x 597 mm D
(5.2 in x 19 in x 24 in)
Weight3 30 kg (66 lbs)
Supported systems4
For a list of currently supported servers, operating systems, host bus adapters, clustering
applications and SAN switches and directors, refer to the FAStT600 Interoperability Matrix
available at ibm.com/storage/fast600. For availability dates, configuration options, and
attachment capabilities, refer to: http://www.ibm.com/storage/fast600
The FAStT600 Storage Server is supported only in rack installations. With optional features,
up to three FAStT EXP700 Expansion Units can be attached to the FAStT600 enclosure for
a maximum of 56 drives. With the turbo option feature, up to seven FAStT EXP700
Expansion Units can be attached to the FAStT600 enclosure for a maximum of 112 disk
drives
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which includes Storage Manager ver-
sion 8.4 (the base model includes
version 8.3). The turbo option helps
extend the high-availability and scala-
bility characteristics of the entry-level
FAStT600 base model, and may be
added during the initial order or lateras an upgrade. Both the base model
and turbo option are designed to
offer high-performance, low-cost
storage and the flexibility to grow with
your business.
FAStT600 Storage Servers use
advanced caching algorithms to help
optimize disk performance. The base
model is designed to deliver up to
45,000 cached I/Os per second and
up to 400MB/sec throughput in
streaming disk reads. Using Storage
Manager 8.4, the FAStT600 with turbo
option is designed to perform up to
75,000 cached I/Osand provides
up to 768MB/sec throughput.
The FAStT600 Storage Server can
support up to 56 disk drives when
using three FAStT EXP700 disk enclo-
sures; with the turbo option, it can
support up to 112 drives when using
seven FAStT EXP700 disk enclosures.
The base model offers up to 8.2TB of
physical storage capacity and up to
16 storage partitions. By adding the
turbo option, the FAStT600 can sup-
port up to 16.4TB of physical storage
capacity and up to 64 storage parti-
tions. The FAStT600 and FAStT600
with Turbo feature offer up to 28TB of
Serial ATA physical disk storagecapacity with the EXP100.
Other features of the turbo option
include an increased cache size of
2GB and an auto-sensing capability
to help detect host connectivity
speed. This auto-sensing capability
adds support for 1Gbps Fibre
Channel connectivity to the base
models 2Gbps Fibre Channel inter-
face, allowing the FAStT600 to sup-
port a wider range of devices and
thus is designed to provide greater
interoperability. The turbo option also
helps extend the copy services capa-
bilities of the FAStT600 by including
the VolumeCopy feature, which is
designed to enable full replication of
logical volumes for enhanced data
management and protection.
Centralized administration through FAStT
Storage Manager
The FAStT Storage Manager software
included with the FAStT600 Storage
Server is designed to support central-
ized management of all local and net-
worked FAStT storage systems.
Storage Manager allows administra-
tors to quickly configure and monitor
storage from a Java-based Web
browser interface. It is also designed
to allow them to customize and
change settings as well as configure
new volumes, define mappings,handle routine maintenance and
dynamically add new enclosures and
capacity to existing volumeswithout
interrupting user access to data.
Failover drivers, performance-tuning
routines and cluster support are also
standard features of the FAStT
Storage Manager.
By providing these features and an
intuitive user interface, the FAStT
Storage Manager is designed to help
reduce the complexity of storage
management and the amount of time
spent managing storage.
The turbo option includes Storage
Manager version 8.4, which is
designed to support up to 256 logical
volumes per storage partition, array
groups up to 2TB and the SCSI-3
Persistent Reservation facility for
enhanced server clustering applica-
tions. These additional capabilities
help the FAStT600 to support larger
storage environments.
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Enhanced storage management
capabilities
The IBM TotalStorage FAStT600
Storage Server has several features
designed to improve data manage-
ment and storage system perfor-
mance. Using the FAStT StorageManager software, administrators can
partition the FAStT600 Storage Server
into as many as 16 virtual servers;
with the turbo option, they can create
up to 64 partitions. This capability
allows IT organizations to strategically
allocate storage capacity, helping to
optimize the utilization of storage
space and help reduce hardware and
storage management costs. Instead
of purchasing multiple RAID con-
trollers with their own dedicated disks
and management, organizations can
attach multiple servers to one central
systemthe FAStT600which is
designed to provide hardware failover
and common management.
Other FAStT600 features that can
help enhance data management and
protection include FlashCopy,
Dynamic Volume Expansion and
Volume Copy.
Additional tools to help manage storage
The FAStT600 Storage Server is sup-
ported by a variety of IBM Tivoli
software products, including Tivoli
Storage Manager and Tivoli Storage
Resource Manager, as well as many
other third-party hardware and soft-ware products. These applications
can add to the capabilities of the
FAStT600 by enabling backup and
storage reporting.
The IBM TotalStorage Proven
program is designed to identify and
test many of these products for inter-
operability with the FAStT600 and
other IBM disk products. Products in
this program have been tested to
help reduce or eliminate time-con-
suming installation and support
issues. For more information, please
visit ibm.com/totalstorage/proven.
Service and support
FAStT Storage Servers have a three-
year hardware warranty. Additional
services for hardware installation,
FAStT Storage Manager configuration
and advanced storage management
are also available from IBM Global
Services (IGS). IBM SupportLine
services can assist with using FAStT
Storage Manager, helping to enable
customers to self-maintain their FAStT
Storage Server.
The IBM FlashCopy feature is
designed to take instant point-in-
time copies of logical volumes,
which may be used for file restora-
tion, backups, application testing or
data mining.
Dynamic Volume Expansion isdesigned to allow administrators to
resize logical volumes without dis-
rupting users. This feature can
work well for applications with
rapidly growing data requirements,
such as Lotus Notes and
Microsoft Exchange. Available only with the turbo
option, the VolumeCopy feature is
designed to provide full replication
of one logical volume (source) to
another (target) within the
FAStT600 Storage Server.
VolumeCopy is designed to allow
read-only access to the source
volume during the copy process,
and suspend writes to support
point-in-time integrity.
Multiple FAStT600 systems can use a
common pool of hot-spare disk drives
as a cost-effective way of improving
availability, even if the FAStT600 sys-
tems are attached to different servers.
IT administrators can determine the
number of drives to allocate as
spares.
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the system and application software used.
1 Base model (without turbo option) provides up
to 400MB/sec throughput.
2 Base model (without Turbo option) supports
up to 56 fibre channel disk drives using three
EXP700 Expansion Units or 112 Serial ATA
disk drives using eight EXP100 Expansion
Units with Turbo option: 112 fibre channel disk
drives using seven EXP700 Expansion Units or
112 Serial ATA using eight EXP100 Expansion
Units.
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ibm.com/storage/fast600.
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Custom labeling and initializing can
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The optional FAStT Service Alert fea-
ture is designed to enable the
FAStT600 to quickly notify the IBM
Support Center of problems when
they occur, helping to reduce or elimi-
nate the need for the customer to
place a service call. This feature is
capable of forwarding error alert mes-
sages (via e-mail) from FAStT Storage
Manger to IBM to help expedite diag-
nosis and repair of failed hardware
and software problems.
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High-performance storage for the on
demand world
The features of the FAStT600 Storage
Serverincluding the turbo option
further enhance the functionality, flexi-
bility and scalability of the IBM FAStTproduct family. As a high-
performance Fibre Channel storage
system, the FAStT600 is designed to
enable fast, responsive applications
that can help improve transaction
rates and customer satisfaction.
The performance, capacity and data
management and protection capabili-
ties of the FAStT600 can not only help
address the storage needs of today,
but also provide a base for continued
growth to help meet future storage
requirements. By combining these
capabilities with a design focused on
high reliability, manageability and
affordability, the FAStT600 Storage
Server offers a cost-effective storage
system for the on demand world.